Overdrive

Took me a while to realise you are playing all the parts yourself.... Well done! That kind of adaptability will surely serve you well. Sounded like a good mix too, and the multi tracking film edit you did was cool. I'm not familiar with the song, so I won't say anything about your interpretation etc. Whilst there is nothing particularly technical vocally in this song (does not appear to move through or beyond the passagio - stays comfortably in 'chest') your delivery sounded true to the style. I don't mean at all to devalue the music or your efforts, simply an observation. I look forward to more of these one man band productions from you!

Thanks Nick! And this song stays comfortably in chest for you? That's amazing! Maybe I just have a low voice but I feel like a lot of the song was in my passagio. I tried to add some twang/distortion so that it didn't have such a high tone.

The song was pretty difficult for me but I got through it :P

Maybe. It's best to pick a coach / teacher that can do what you want to do.

Have you come across some teachers who do this rock singing style that I'm looking for? Maybe even a video on youtube?

What is your warm up / work out routine?

I use a Warm-Up from Eric Arcenaux

Forceful Shh's

Lip Roll Scales

La Ga, Ta La, Ya Ya with Relaxed Jaw

Reflecting a bit on this, maybe because what I really want is powerful high vocals (rock style) and Eric seems to lean towards a light controlled head voice, I might have been following the wrong teacher!

Dude, you have a lot of good stuff going on here. Obviously, you sing into your "mask"- which is awesome. You have a good buzz goin on. Your tone sounds great. I think you should work in your vowels a bit - might help you get what you're looking for . But, I'm not really sure what you're looking for lol.

For some reason it all sounds really bad to me? Is it all out-of-tune? And more specifically I just can't hit those high notes. I got lucky once in that recording with a high note, but that's a rare occasion! lol

https://soundcloud.com/tmusician/fine-again-vocal-1/s-9PsFQ

Every now and then I realize how long I've been working on my singing and how little distance I've come, and I get really bummed out! Can you please help me?

https://soundcloud.com/tmusician/you-waste-your-time-chorus

I'm working on stuff like this, and would love to know what you guys think or if you have any tips.

I was hoping for some constructive criticism. Two problems that I noticed were that my voice sounds weak and I had to use auto-tune. Maybe you guys have some insight into how to fix this?

One take, it's rough :P

Oh I'm sorry you guys didn't like the video. Too many cuts I assume?

And thanks ron! haha I like your analysis (and I'm a big fan of Dave Grohl). :P

Yeah I really like your tone for this song, and if you're comfortable when you do it, it should be okay.

I find this song quite a challenge for me, what is my biggest issue? Support?

I've been singing songs like this for a while now thinking that I just needed to "get used to using head voice" but I'm not sure if that's working.

https://soundcloud.com/tmusician/have-faith-in-me/s-yuCrE

hahaha thanks! You're probably talking about my Hot Problems Parody (Fat Problems) haha!

Please let me know what you think!

This sounds great!

The vocal could sit better in the mix, but I've no idea how to do that.

Thanks Sound26! I heard someone else mention the vocals being too loud as well! Thanks for letting me know, you guys are probably right! It might just be a case of turning it down a few dB :P

Thanks for the support Ron! I also think Taylor is a really great drummer, it's always fun to play along to his stuff :)

I know that my vocals sound bad, I'm just not sure why.

http://soundcloud.com/tmusician/pieces

I definitely would like some comments on how to improve, especially for the chorus which I probably yelled.

Thanks Vocalist Dad and thank you Tanya, I'll work on keeping the palate lifted, and trying to express more emotion. Do people usually not drop their jaw? I thought the opposite was true and that a lifted jaw would cause tension or something along those lines. Is this not true?

As you probably can notice, it's a bit of a joke, but the technique's used to make those sounds are NOT! haha :P